Source of the Kaine Senate buzz

By BYRON TAU

03/14/2011 01:24 PM EDT

The rumor floating around Twitter is that Tim Kaine told his class at the University of Richmond that he planned to run for Senate. The origin of this still-unconfirmed rumor is a student identified only as
"Greg"
"Gray" calling into Rob Schilling's radio show on WINA. The audio of the call is embedded above.

Widely retweeted, and totally unconfirmed -- very of the moment.

UPDATE: A source close to Kaine tells POLITICO's David Catanese that Kaine did talk about his plans with his undergraduate class today, but he made no definitive announcement. "He is increasingly likely to run and shared that with his students. But he made no definitive announcement, and there is no final decision yet," said the source.

DNC's Brad Woodhouse: “In response to a student’s question, Governor Kaine told his law school class today what is already widely known which is that he is increasingly likely to run. However, no final decision will be made or announced until the governor has had a final round of consultations with folks about how he can best serve the President, the people and the causes he cares about; he is assured that the Democratic Party will be in good hands should he choose to make the race and leave the DNC; he has the support that would be necessary to mount a successful campaign and he completes commitments for travel and fundraising he has made to the Party and the President through at least the end of the month.”"

UPDATE II: Gray Delany, the student identified as "Greg" on WINA, stands by the version of the story he told on the air in an interview with POLITICO. According to Delany, who has a radio show on University of Richmond's student radio station WDCE, the former governor clearly told his undergraduate class that he was running for Senate. Delany wasn't in the room, but got the information from two students who were.